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Rasheed Araeen, Live Art, and Radical Politics in Britain
An analysis of Araeen's performance Paki Bastard (Portrait of the Artist as a Black Person) and journal Black Phoenix.
Found in miscellaneous article folder #5A
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
ASCO Elite of the Obscure
Catalogue from the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco. Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September – December 2011) and Williams College Museum of Art (February – July, 2012).
Ocaña, 1973-1983: Acciones, Actuaciones, Activismo
Devoted to the largely forgotten Spanish artist; published for the eponymous exhibition. In Spanish, Catalan, Basque and English.
Maud Sulter: Passion
The first sustained publication on the artist and writer of Scottish and Ghanaian heritage who lived and worked in Britain. Originally accompanied the exhibition, Maud Sulter: Passion at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, 25 April – 21 June 2015.
Includes exhibition programme from Maud Sulter: Syrcas at Autograph ABP in London, 15 January – 2 April 2016.
Portable Borders
Sheren explores performance art and politics on the US Frontera since 1984. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.
Somewhere Near Variety
In a series of letters composed to each other and delivered to camera, artist Tim Etchells and writer Adrian Heathfield examine what underlies their shared interest in the notion and forms of Variety.
73 minutes. 2006.
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In 1987, Paul Bright, a rebellious young Scottish director set out to stage James Hogg’s cult novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner in a series of radical productions across Scotland. In 2010, Untitled Projects began work with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive and exhibition of this almost-forgotten feat of theatre.
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s ‘Selves’
From 1972-1991, Eleanor Antin created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographical locations. This book, issued in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, explores these works
The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America, 1970-1980
A detailed study of the role women artists played in the develpment and expansion of performance art
The Gold Diggers
The Gold Diggers is a key film of early 1980s feminist cinema. Two heroines begin to unravel the truth about the search for gold and the secrets of personal transformation and freedom
This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s
2012 exhibition catalogue with critical texts.
Mark Morrisroe
Book based on the Mark Morrisroe Exhibitions, 2011-2013, featuring photos and commentary
